Quotes from Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

That was a good fight back in the gym," he said. "But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

My life sucks when I'm only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it's really like, I'd probably jump off a bridge.

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.

For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.

The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.